PH2

Just skimmed through the document - all 70 pages! This is another white elephant. The HSE could have saved a lot of time and effort by informing Prof Lofstedt - 'there are very few health and safety laws which apply to the self-employed. Moreover, self-employed workers rarely get prosecuted, the exception being those who work in high risk industries and put others at risk.'

Ray

"Risk means the likelihood that a specified undesired event will occur due to the realisation of a hazard by or during work activities or by the products and services created by the work activities. Hazard means the potential to cause harm including ill health and injury10. It should be noted that Professor Löfstedt’s report also refers to “low-risk sectors”, “low hazard businesses” and “low-risk workplaces” and these proposals consider how the exemption may focus specifically on the self-employed who carry out low risk activity such as office-type work (referred to in the Government response)."

I like the definition of risk and the implied sarcasm in the second sentence.